zadruga

From Serbo-Croatian zȃdruga/за̑друга (“commune”).

• IPA^(key): /zæˈdɹuːɡə/

zadruga (plural zadrugas or zadruge)

1. A social unit of rural community among the South Slavs, associated with family links and set customs.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, pages 7–8:

     Byzantine culture was forced to retreat in the face of a way of life based on the extended family commune or zadruga, which was further organised around loose tribal areas known as županije.

• IPA^(key): /zâːdruɡa/
• Hyphenation: za‧dru‧ga

zȃdruga f (Cyrillic spelling за̑друга)

1. zadruga
2. commune, cooperative

• “zadruga”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025